Real time USB control. What? me worry?

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Proposal
Short form
osb2009-0040

Excerpt

Ever get an urge to control a robot using real time Linux and a serial port, but find that your computer only has USB ports?

Description

Sure, you’ve been told that USB is broken for real time at the specification level, but that won’t stop you from trying! This talk presents the setup and investigation of where some of the rocks are when attempting to do any type of real time control over USB.

This talk will include a demo of something falling over.

Tags

RT linux, USB

Speaking experience

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